Pierre Lemieux (economist)

Pierre Lemieux is an economist and author born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada in 1947. He holds graduate degrees in economics from the University of Toronto (Canada), and in Philosophy from Université de Sherbrooke (Canada). His research interests and fields of publication straddle economic and political theory, public choice, public finance, and public policy. He lives in the U.S.

After having lectured in several universities, he is currently affiliated (as a “professeur associé”) to the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Québec in Outaouais. He is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Economic Institute. During the winter of 2009-2010, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics at San Jose State University, San Jose CA.

He has been a columnist for the Western Standard (both paper and on-line) and has published pieces in several financial newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, the National Post, and the 'Figaro Économie, and La Tribune.

He was the founder and, for a few years, the co-director of the “Iconoclastes” book series at Les Belles Lettres in Paris.The Times Literary Supplement wrote: "They order this matter better in France, perhaps. 'Iconoclastes' is an attractively stubby series published by Les Belles lettres."

He has also been an occasional consultant for a few national and international corporations.

His first books, published in Paris in the 1980s, were on the economics and political philosophy of anarcho-capitalism and classical liberalism: Du libéralisme à l’anarcho capitalisme (From Liberalism to Anarcho-Capitalism), La souveraineté de l’individu (The Sovereignty of the Individual), and L’anarcho-capitalisme (Anarcho-Capitalism). He was among the very first ones to bring libertarian ideas to French readers, rediscovering at the same time a forgotten French classical liberal tradition. In these works, he defended the idea that anarcho-capitalism is the ideal, of which classical liberalism is an implementation. "The public domain," he wrote in Du libéralisme à l'anarcho-capitalisme, "is only justifiable to the extent that it supports private liberty; the role of the state is to protect anarchy." In the 2006 preface to the electronic edition of L’anarcho-capitalisme (published in the Classiques des sciences sociales), he stresses more the classical liberal or minimal-government alternative. "At the dawn of the 21st century," he asks, "isn't it more important to understands how Leviathan advances and how to chain him, than to theorize on the ideal of total liberty?"

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